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Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce (view source)
Revision as of 10:23, 20 January 2021
, 10:23, 20 January 2021→Historical documents
* The Chamber entertained the new teachers on their first day in Wooster, showing them points of interest and taking them to dinner.
* The Chamber entertained the new teachers on their first day in Wooster, showing them points of interest and taking them to dinner.
* The downtown one-way traffic plan, tried during the Christmas season to speed up traffic and provide more parking, worked so well, this Chamber recommended plan was made permanent by city ordinance in February 1951.
* The downtown one-way traffic plan, tried during the Christmas season to speed up traffic and provide more parking, worked so well, this Chamber recommended plan was made permanent by city ordinance in February 1951.
====1951====
* Borg-Warner negotiated an option with the property owner for 30 acres of land west of Wooster.
* The Courtesy Fund for parking meters began. Police put a nickel in the expired parking meter and an envelope on the car windshield asking return of a nickel to the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber started this fund with $10.00, and after $20.00 was deposited in meters, had $9.50 remaining.
* Two hundred thousand seals, commemorating Wooster as "the home of the first Christmas tree," were given to members and the area public. A lighted Christmas tree was placed at the tomb of August Imgard, who erected this "first tree" in Wooster in 1847.
* A list of assets indicated the Chamber still owned a total of 80 acres of land in various Wooster locations.
====1952====
* Mr. C. E. McCarley was selected as the next Executive Secretary, following the resignation of Mr. Barker.
* The telephone company proposed the installation of a dial telephone system in Wooster, and a substantial rate increase.
* Don Noble reported that a Safety Council would soon be formed for the industrial group. The first Safety Council Awards Banquet was held April 25, 1954.
* An Annexation Committee was appointed to seek areas that should be annexed, and to encourage such annexation.
==Timeline==
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